Aw, screw it. I'll sit in the dark on my own and bet on imaginary horses with imaginary money.
Dragon Ball is one of those franchises where you could easily spit out another something at a fingerclick. Everyone wants to make it; everyone wants to publish it; everyone wants to buy it. How many decades and a bottomless appetite. Click! Dragon Ball Zenkai Battle.
I worked on a bookie counter and learnt about gambling. Idiots say the house always wins. They don’t say that about the cinema or the gym.
There has long been a trend of reporting on Japan that selects and spins niche, non-news stories to contribute to a collaborative caricature of “Weird Japan”. One popular pastime is to point at sexual perversions – where many “perversions” are merely wayward of Western norms, presented absent acknowledgement or awareness of the imperfections in how we all cope with sex the world over.
With these face-suckers you exit the world and have human interaction HarrisonBergerised by the asinine safespace of a videogame.
Horse racing’s a quintessentially Japanese pastime, as Japanese as baseball, golf and apple pie.
